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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2n SESS.-CHS. 695, 696--JUNE 28, 1948 thence with said highway south sixty-nine degrees forty minutes west one thousand six hundred and two feet to corner of said property transferred by Veterans' Administration to Tennessee Valley Author- ity by Executive Order 9771 aforesaid; thence north one degree thirty minutes east for a distance of one thousand and sixty-three and three- tenths feet to the beginning. SEC. 2. The tract of land authorized to be transferred by the first section of this Act shall be used by the grantee for fair grounds and recreational purposes; and the deed of conveyance of such lands shall contain (1) the provision that all such property shall be used and maintained for the purposes for which it was conveyed for a period of not less than twenty years, and that in the event such property ceases to be used or maintained for such purposes during such period, or is alienated or an attempt is made to alienate such property during such period, all or any portion of such property shall in its then exist- ing condition, at the option of the United States, revert to the United States; and (2) such additional terms, reservations, restrictions and conditions as may be determined by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be necessary to safeguard the interests of the United States. The deed shall reserve to the United States the interests in fissionable material as provided in Executive Order 9908, dated December 5, 1947: Provided,That Johnson City shall pay 50 per centum of appraised value of its property to be determined by the Veterans' Administration. Approved June 28, 1948. [CHAPTER 696] AN ACT 1069 3 OFR, 186 8upp., p. 158. Use of land. Rights reserved by U.S. 3 CFR, 1947 Supp., p. 178. June 28, 1948 To amend the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (Public Law 381, Eightieth Congress), [H. R. 6707] and for other purposes. [Public Law 8041 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws requiring retirement of Regular Army and Regular Air Force officers because of age shall not apply to officers of the Regular Army or Regular Air Force appointed in the grade of General of the Army pursuant to the Act of March 23, 1946 (60 Stat. 59). The President, may, in his discretion, upon the request of the officer concerned, restore to the active list of the Regular Army or Regular Air Force any officer of the Regular Army or Regular Air Force on the retired list who was appointed in the grade of General of the Army pursuant to the Act of March 23, 1946 (60 Stat. 59). Officers appointed in the grade of General of the Army pursuant to the Act of March 23, 1946 (60 Stat. 59), shall not be counted within the limited number of officers authorized to be serving on active duty in grades above lieutenant general as provided in section 504 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (Public Law 381, Eightieth Congress) unless they be serving as Chief of Staff or in command of any territorial or tactical subdivision of the Army or the Air Force. SEC. 2 . In addition to the number of officers authorized to serve after July 1,1948, on the active list in the grade of General in the Army and Admiral in the Navy pursuant to sections 504 and 413 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, officers now on the active list of the Army in the grade of general whose dates of rank in such grade are between March 8, 1945, and April 15, 1945, inclusive, and of the Navy in the grade of admiral whose dates of rank in such grade are prior to April 4, 1945, may, at the discretion of the President, be continued in such grades until July 1, 1950, unless sooner retired and the total number of officers authorized by these sections to have the grade, rank, title, pay, and allowances of vice admiral or admiral and lieutenant general Officer Personnel Act of 1947, amend- ment. General of the Army. 50U.S.C.app. «i 1691,1692,1711,1721 notes. 61 Stat. 886. 10U.8. C., Supp.I, 1506b; 37 U. S. C., upp. I, i 107. Continuation of cer- tain officers on active list. 61 Stat. 886, 875. 10U.S. C., Supp.I , 506b; 37 U. S. C., Supp.I, 107;34U. S. C., 8upp. I, 211d.